You are invited to a Symposium & Workshop to be held at The Open University, Faculty of Health & Social Care, Milton Keynes.


SYMPOSIUM & WORKSHOP:

MAKING A DIFFERENCE, EXPERIENCES OF REPRODUCTION AND LOSS

 

18th January 2007


This one-day Symposium and Workshop is funded by the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness

 

Everybody is welcome. Attendance is free, lunch and refreshments provided. Places must be booked for catering arrangements. Contact Dr Sarah Earle on [log in to unmask]

 

The Symposium aims to bridge the gap between the sociology of human reproduction, on the one hand, and the sociology of death, dying and disposal, on the other, drawing together these areas of study to explore aspects of both divergence and commonality. In doing so, the symposium also aims to develop the sociological study of reproduction and loss. There are few, if any, opportunities for those involved in working and researching within this field to share their knowledge and practice with each other and with those who have themselves experienced reproductive loss. To explore some of these issues, the proposed Symposium & Workshop seeks to bring together the following groups:

 

* Key stakeholders in policy and practice
* Practitioners, including midwives, nurses, health visitors and counsellors
* Researchers and academics in the sociology of health and illness, in particular those with an interest in reproduction and loss
* Service users.

 

 

Programme
Coffee and Registration from 9.30am

10.00 - 10.15 Welcome

 

Morning Symposium: Experience, Practice and Research

10.15 - 10.45 Suzanne Tibbenham, SANDS

                                A personal account of reproductive loss

10.45 - 11.15 Debbie Komaromy, Guys Hospital

                                Death of a child: Who Cares? Professional perspective of caring for families and dying babies

11.15 - 11.30 Tea & Coffee

11.30 - 12.00 Professor Elizabeth Ettorre, University of Liverpool

                                                Using Women: shame, social exclusion and reproductive loss

12.00 - 12.30 Professor Jenny Hockey, The University of Sheffield

                                                A time to be born? A time to die?

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch

 

Afternoon Workshops: Putting it into practice

1.30 - 2.30 In a series of interdisciplinary workshops, delegates will focus on developing strategies to enable:

 

§ sharing of academic, professional and experiential knowledge

§ the development of cross-boundary networks to facilitate scholarship and research

§ continuing development of policy and practice on reproduction and loss

§ involvement of key stakeholders in future education and training in reproduction and loss.

2.30 - 2.45 Tea & Coffee

2.45 - 3.30 Continuation of workshop

3.30 - 4.00 Plenary session: the way forward

 

Organisers: Sarah Earle, Pam Foley, Stephen Handsley, Carol Komaromy & Cathy E. Lloyd

Birth and Death Research Group, The Open University, Faculty of Health & Social Care, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
 
With best wishes, Sarah
 
Dr Sarah Earle
Lecturer, Health & Social Care
 
Room 218, Horlock Building, Faculty of Health & Social Care, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
 
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